The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15
ABOUr WOMEN.

Georgia chartered and built the first
women's college in the United States.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives away in
charity all the money She gets for her
poems.
A niece of Maria Mitchell, Of Vassar, is
one of The proof-readers on the new "Cen.
tury dictionary.
Mrs. Daniels, wife eff Capt Daniels of
the Water Lily, has just been licensed
as pilot Of that steamer.
The Connecticut House of Represents
lives has passed a bill making women ell
gible 10 election on district school boards.
Miss Catherine Wolfe helped number
of girls through YassaT, without letting
them know from whom the money came.
The Bombay Gazette" mas broken the
ice by employing sixteen Anglo-Indian
girls as composiiors and a woman as
proof-reader.
Mrs. Custeris delighted with the scenery
and climate of Southern California, and
pronounces it ian excellent trip for over
worked and worn-out women."
Mrs. JESSIE Benton Fremont expects to
spend the summer in the West, writing a
lie of Kit Carson, the famous scout and
explorer who guided Gen. Fremont over
the Rocky Mountains.
Miss Florence Greene, of Montreal
who saved her father last summer from
being carried over the Lachine Rapids,
has been presented with the medal OF the
Royal Humane Society of England.
A class of seven young women will
rrraf it1a IA ha frai
school for nurses at the Buffalo On, W
General Hospital. Six young women re-
ceived their diplomas in January. Train
ed nursing is growing in favor as pro-
fession fer women.
About fifty women have this year been
elected as school supervisors in MAina
The State superintendent of schools tesli-
fies that women on school committees are
reformcrs, and can be counted on to
favor the most enlightened ways of deal
Ing with teachers and scholars.
A new trade for women is that of
''neiehborhood darner." The woman
who follows it has for her custom rs a
dozen or twenty households, each of
which she visits weekly, and spends few
hours in dong up the family darning
and mending, including ripping and
cleansing of old gowns Her engagements
are systematiZed, and she never lacks
work. Some of these members make a
speciality ofrepairipg lace and other deli
cate fabrics. The pay is fairly good, and
the professional member is great blessing
to busy house-keepers with large families.
Miss Mary Tillinghast is one of the
most successful among women who have
made business of decorative art. Van
derbils once paid her $500 for invent
his houses. Sac supplied the designs for
the stained-glass window just erected in
Grace Church, N Y, representing Ja-
cob's Dream. No piece OF cathedral art
had ever been intrusted in this country to
woman. but her designs were so obvious
" the best that precedent was broken
through. The angels ascending and de-
scending the ladder are full of life and
vigor, and the window ranks with the
best of decorative work.
Mrs. Mary L, Barr. who is coming into
notice Though her Scotch dialect stories,
began to write when she was fifty-four
She lost her husband, who was Military
Goveror of Texas, aud seven children, all
within tWenty-four hours, from yellow
fever, and found herself left with four
little ones, and with only fly cents in her
pocket book. She went to New York
and became governess in The family of
one of A. T. SewarCs partners. Her first
tale was written to crafty the whim of
her employer. 1t was promptly accepted
by publisher, and since then she has
gone on writing with gro wing success.